Lauren Adams {art studio}
Nocturnal Landscapes
 The Faultline24x30 |  The First Blush of Spring24x30 |
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 Morning Dew 30"x30" |  "Morning Glory" 32"x32"Oil on Canvas |
 Commission-Sold 24"x30" |  Etherial Mountain 15"x18" |
 Mudcloth Mountain, Linen Waves 4'x3'Oil on canvas |  Crevasse20"x30" Oil on Canvas |
 The Wave 24x12Oil on canvas |  Velvet Sea 24x18 |
 Arctic Mare 24x18 |  Fjord 24x30Oil on canvas |
 Glacial Pace 24x18Oil on canvas |  Wave Break 24x12Oil on canvas |
 Prairie Grass 36"x30"Oil on canvas |  Lichen Tundra 24x30Oil on canvas |
 Low Tide 12x16Oil on canvas |  SOLD Reid's Ramble 15"x18"Sold |
 SOLD Painted Desert 10"x12" Oil on CanvasSold |  SoldOil on canvas |
 SOLD Grandmother's Hollow 36"x24" |  SoldOil on canvas |
 SOLD Canyon Lands 14x11Sold |  SOLD Ocean Meets Sand 12x12Sold |
No matter where we are in the world, no matter where we are in stages of life, we all succumb to slumber at some point during our day. Our bodies, souls, and minds recharge as we sleep. This series embodies the exploration of painting the specific mark we leave after we wake from that rest. The etching that remains represents a moment in time. It is our personal landscape. Nocturnal Landscapes explores putting this feeling into a physical representation that allows our loved ones to remain with us after they have moved on.
Nocturnal landscapes, created by a loved one’s body imprinted into their bed, are remnants of his/her complete release and journey to the subconscious. Some may leave a frenzied mountainscape from an active slumber, while others may leave rolling hills from a motionless nocturnal recharge. I have asked my friends and family members, people I love, to send me a snapshot of their own nocturnal landscapes so that I may create an homage to their state of rest and relaxation. These paintings are all adulations of the moment and the place that they recharge their inner bodies.